A Ranching Saga: The Lives of William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell - Paperback

by William Curry Holden (Author), José Cisneros (Illustrator), Hugh Fitzsimons (Foreword by)

The history of a popular and legendary Texas ranching family

Author Biography

William Curry Holden(1896-1993) was a historian and archaeologist at Texas Tech University, where he taught for forty years. He was also the first director of Museum of Texas Tech in Lubbock, which included the Moody Planetarium, the Natural Science Research Laboratory, the Lubbock Lake Landmark, and the Val Verde County Research Center. Among his many other books are The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian (coauthor, 1971), Rollie Burns, or, An Account of the Ranching Industry on the South Plains (1932), and The Spur Ranch (1934).